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Dysgraphia is a writing disability in which a person finds it hard to form letters or write within a defined space. These children usually will have extremely poor handwriting. Children with dysgraphia often have sequencing problems. What usually appears to be a perceptual problem (reversing letters/numbers, writing words backwards, writing letters out of order, and very sloppy handwriting) is often directly related to sequential/rational information processing difficulty present. These children have difficulty with the sequence of letters and words as they write. As a result, they either need to slow down in order to write accurately, or experience difficulty with writing (spelling, punctuation, etc). And when they do slow down they often tend to lose the thoughts that they are trying to write about.